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A Captain who was flying with an assigned altitude of 10,000 feet while being vectored for a landing on runway 27L thought he heard the copilot say Cleared to seven, took this to mean Cleared to seven thousand feet, and started to descend.
The sightseeing you remember best might be the lively free market lining the hundreds of steps that descend higgledy-piggledy from the hills of central Chongqing to the river.
But it’s not just international tourists that descend on the Algarve; many Portuguese from Lisbon and elsewhere in the north have holiday homes and spend their summer vacations here.
While it seems likely that fazio the noun as well as Fazio the name descend from an otherwise benign, even auspicious name, the history of other names is not so easy to untangle.
The remaining rRNA genes descend from two different ancestral operons, with other rRNA operons lost entirely.